Lio

Founder & CEO at 9F | @9FStudioArt @9FWeb @9FHolding

[Lio @LioOnChain]

>be me
>2012
- working as a content writer for 4 companies at once
- set a goal to make $50/day
- quit my job and became self employed

>2014
- founded my first company doing Google AdSense
- scaled it to 50 employees
- made my first million dollars thanks to the MMO wave
- bought a house in a new project
- developer ran away, lost everything
- failed
- met my first girlfriend this year who now my wife ❤️

>2016
- started over again
- launched an online cosmetics business during the Facebook e-com boom
- hit 7-figure revenue in the first year
- competitive livestream wave
- failed again

>2017
- heard everyone around me getting rich from crypto
- joined the ICO wave, made a lot of money
- bought my first BTCs
- joined big lending projects like BitConnect
- held thousands of BNB at $3
- FOMO’d into small ICOs and scams
- lost $100k in one OTC deal
- even convinced my parents to invest in ICOs
- everything collapsed at the end of the year
- lost it all

>2018
- led a 4 person trading group arbitraging BTC between Japan (Bitflyer) and Vietnam
- $300–400 spread per BTC
- owned over 200 BTC
- bought my first million dollar house and car
- exchange froze our funds, partner in Japan disappeared with the money
- lost everything again
- lost faith in crypto
- sold all my BTC (fuckkkk me)

>2019
- went back to e-commerce
- built another 100 person company
- made millions again
- you guessed it right, the company ended up failing when Shopee and TikTok entered the market with cheap products

>2020
- start a fashion brand.
- opened shops on Shopee
- nothing but failure
- invested $2M into two startups and opened 40 stores across two countries
- pandemic hit in 2021
- had to close all stores, both companies went bankrupt

>2021–2025
- biggest success of my life: my son was born ❤️
- discovered NFTs, joined the whitelist grind
- made hundreds of thousands flipping and creating NFT art
- got hacked multiple times, lost hundreds of thousands
- started 9F Studio with my sister and brother
- got suspended on X 5 times
- got my Pudgy Penguin hacked
- rebuilt, became one of the top Web3 art Studios with million dollar revenue
- building 9F Web
- create my personal account
- bought another my forever Pudgy Penguin
- worked nonstop for 14 years
- market dumps

>now
- still here
- have complete faith in the future of crypto.
- still building

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@Riowgmi Bro is the real death to AI slop

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@donutgrillfish Good write here Donut, keep up more good articles

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@shotguncaio Morning Sunday. What’s this one mean bro?

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@RokBoogas IRL always the alpha. 2026 gonna huge Booga

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@SHADOW_NFT15 Legacy Year🔥

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@0xEthan Send em all back bro🔥

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@0xEthan Make it great again

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@MedusaOnchain @ToshiBet The best bet of all time

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@0xEthan Step by step. Purely alpha articles bro🔥🔥

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@zaimiri Its so obvious to see that. But there’s still chance to fix it if they change

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@leonabboud Huge. Clipping szn incoming

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@banditxbt At least they try, its okay

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@AtnsXBT @waleswoosh @banditxbt @m00des @Xeer Who’s the captain here 🏴‍☠️

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@banditxbt Bandit deserved this list man

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@shivst3r R3ACH supercycle (real)

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@banditxbt What’s that even mean bro 😭

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@KevinSzabo14 Still work with me 🫡

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@AresSprout Today is the day 😭

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@banditxbt Bandit is back. Monster is back

[Lio @LioOnChain]

@shivst3r That’s sound more reasonable rn, let’s see what they’re cooking up